All posts by Mickey Hess

September 9th, 2010

I Will Blurb Any Book Within 24 Hours! #18

Tired of waiting weeks or even MONTHS for back-cover endorsements from recognizable authors? I, Mickey Hess, will blurb any book – that’s right, ANY book – within 24 hours! Just look at these satisfied customers:

Henry Alley’s Precincts of Light: “Precincts of Light is as unsettling as a firing squad. It is also a book about Oregon.” – Mickey Hess …more

September 4th, 2010

I Will Blurb Any Book Within 24 Hours! #17

Tired of waiting weeks or even MONTHS for back-cover endorsements from recognizable authors? I, Mickey Hess, will blurb any book – that’s right, ANY book – within 24 hours! Just look at these satisfied customers:

Shane Jones’ A Cake Appeared: “The old masterpieces are dull. Shane Jones, a controversial fellow with a rock ‘n’ roll haircut, is quite the verbal star. As a general rule, this male author brings new life to the canon. His avant-garde literary undergarments instantly transform readers and rough up your expectations.” – Mickey Hess

Matty Byloos’ Don’t Smell the Floss: “Matty Byloos escapes the use of words and characters to make a novel come vibrantly alive. How? Through almost obscene means.” — Mickey Hess

R.Lynn’s The Descendants Saga: “R. Lynn is turning novel writing into a sweaty, perfunctory dream. Storytelling here is undiluted and surprisingly, refreshingly indelible. The book features character, detail, and setting, sure, but the bottom line is the onstage guitar riffs.” – Mickey Hess

There are plenty more where those came from, trust me! Authors, contact me today at mickeyhess@gmail.com and LET’S GET BLURBING!!!

September 2nd, 2010

I Will Blurb Any Book Within 24 Hours! #16

Tired of waiting weeks or even MONTHS for back-cover endorsements from recognizable authors? I, Mickey Hess, will blurb any book – that’s right, ANY book – within 24 hours! Just look at these satisfied customers:

Plano Fox and Zenbar Harris’ Matriculating from Malaysia: “First off, I should mention that I don’t blurb friends. That said, Plano Fox and I have never seen eye-to-eye on things, and Harris strikes me as kind of a dick.” – Mickey Hess …more

August 31st, 2010

I Will Blurb Any Book Within 24 Hours! #15

Tired of waiting weeks or even MONTHS for back-cover endorsements from recognizable authors? I, Mickey Hess, will blurb any book – that’s right, ANY book – within 24 hours! Just look at these satisfied customers:

Shya Scanlon’s Forecast: “As writers, we are constantly lugging around somebody else’s body. We deserve so little, yet ask for rewards such as accolades. There are stories that Shya Scanlon wants to tell, narratives about money, summer camp experiences, and a former America.” – Mickey Hess …more

August 30th, 2010

I Will Blurb Any Book Within 24 Hours! #14

Tired of waiting weeks or even MONTHS for back-cover endorsements from recognizable authors? I, Mickey Hess, will blurb any book – that’s right, ANY book – within 24 hours! Just look at these satisfied customers:

John Jodzio’s If You Lived Here You’d Already be Home: “When I saw that John Jodzio’s book has a blurb from Chuck Klosterman, I was like What the hell? Man, I asked Chuck Klosterman for a blurb and he never responded.” – Mickey Hess …more

August 29th, 2010

I Will Blurb Any Book Within 24 Hours! #13

Tired of waiting weeks or even MONTHS for back-cover endorsements from recognizable authors? I, Mickey Hess, will blurb any book – that’s right, ANY book – within 24 hours! Just look at these satisfied customers:

Paul Muldoon’s Wayside Shrines: “During graduate school, I once stabbed myself with a Paul Muldoon poem (I had to have surgery). It’s like it had all the answers – it was fraught with human life. In Muldoon’s world, there would be no boring, 400-page books. Just flea market curiosities and the American Dream.” – Mickey Hess …more

August 28th, 2010

I Will Blurb Any Book Within 24 Hours! #12

Tired of waiting weeks or even MONTHS for back-cover endorsements from recognizable authors? I, Mickey Hess, will blurb any book – that’s right, ANY book – within 24 hours! Just look at these satisfied customers:

J Robert Lennon’s Video Game Hints, Tricks, And Cheats: “If you are looking for a book of video game cheats, J Robert Lennon didn’t want to write one. Instead, this book is like some kind of reflection of your outraged self, via literary prose. You may think of Lennon as a sort of complex younger brother to Holden Caulfield, a partying novelist with a multilayered 12-year-old sense of humor.” – Mickey Hess …more

August 27th, 2010

I Will Blurb Any Book Within 24 Hours! #11

Tired of waiting weeks or even MONTHS for back-cover endorsements from recognizable authors? I, Mickey Hess, will blurb any book – that’s right, ANY book – within 24 hours! Just look at these satisfied customers: …more

August 26th, 2010

I Will Blurb Any Book Within 24 Hours! #10

Tired of waiting weeks or even MONTHS for back-cover endorsements from recognizable authors? I, Mickey Hess, will blurb any book – that’s right, ANY book – within 24 hours! Just look at these satisfied customers:

Todd Dills’ All Hands On: THE2NDHAND AFTER 10: “It is painfully accurate to call Todd Dills ‘Tony Hollywood, New York Screenwriter.’ That said, Dills’ collection offers a comment on modern life. The narrators within this collection of stories may bring to mind a more youthful Holden Caulfield, or Toni Morrison being incredibly shaky, or Richard Ford faking it.  You know. Because the book came from a collective of well-regarded idiots. They’re nice. They’re compassionate people. But idiots, oh my God.” – Mickey Hess …more

August 25th, 2010

I Will Blurb Any Book Within 24 Hours! #9

Tired of waiting weeks or even MONTHS for back-cover endorsements from recognizable authors? I, Mickey Hess, will blurb any book – that’s right, ANY book – within 24 hours! Just look at these satisfied customers:

Andrew Shaffer’s Great Philosophers Who Failed at Love: “While I’ve heard of Louis Althusser previously, I believed him to be a former bassist for the Charlie Daniels Band. Andrew Shaffer corrected this, and many of my other misconceptions. Failing at love? Visit this Chile-set novel.” – Mickey Hess …more

August 24th, 2010

I Will Blurb Any Book Within 24 Hours! #8

Tired of waiting weeks or even MONTHS for back-cover endorsements from recognizable authors? I, Mickey Hess, will blurb any book – that’s right, ANY book – within 24 hours! Just look at these satisfied customers:

Anne Trubek’s A Skeptic’s Guide to Writers’ Houses: “I’ve been to Anne Trubek’s house. Talk about curb appeal! The black lantern-style sconces not only safely guide visitors to the door, but also coordinate with the black door and urns. My complaint is the hardware: Oiled-bronze finishes suit traditional homes, while brushed nickel suits more contemporary ones. Get with the times, Anne.” – Mickey Hess …more

August 23rd, 2010

I Will Blurb Any Book Within 24 Hours! #7

Tired of waiting weeks or even MONTHS for back-cover endorsements from recognizable authors? I, Mickey Hess, will blurb any book – that’s right, ANY book – within 24 hours! Just look at these satisfied customers:

Gary Haymes’ Stress Busting Poetry: “I hear this all the time from pretty, insomniac women – ‘the stress merry-go-round keeps us from sleeping.’ Well, write some poetry, ladies. Either on your desk or at your computer. Gary Haymes does it. Put a notepad next to your bed or something. Jot some goddamn poems down.”– Mickey Hess …more

August 22nd, 2010

I Will Blurb Any Book Within 24 Hours! #6

Tired of waiting weeks or even MONTHS for back-cover endorsements from recognizable authors? I, Mickey Hess, will blurb any book – that’s right, ANY book – within 24 hours! Just look at these satisfied customers:

Todd Dills’ Triumph of the Ape: “I met Todd Dills some years ago at a cult-hero party fueled by drink and ethical drugs. He was anonymously disturbing, and was adjective-impaired, for a literary icon. In retrospect, he was wearing a fictional suit. He catapulted pretty much everyone, tossing people at the city like darts. People were afraid, all those years ago. And now Todd has written a book.” – Mickey Hess …more

August 22nd, 2010

I Will Blurb Any Book Within 24 Hours! #5

Tired of waiting weeks or even MONTHS for back-cover endorsements from recognizable authors? I, Mickey Hess, will blurb any book – that’s right, ANY book – within 24 hours! Just look at these satisfied customers:

Tao Lin’s Eeeee Eee Eeee: “We are no longer used to novelists, or the tragic living-dead writers this country has produced. Tao Lin writes with dialogue and characters, sometimes in a single line.” – Mickey Hess …more

August 20th, 2010

I Will Blurb Any Book Within 24 Hours! #4

Tired of waiting weeks or even MONTHS for back-cover endorsements from recognizable authors? I, Mickey Hess, will blurb any book – that’s right, ANY book – within 24 hours! Just look at these satisfied customers: …more

August 20th, 2010

I Will Blurb Any Book Within 24 Hours! #3

Tired of waiting weeks or even MONTHS for back-cover endorsements from recognizable authors? I, Mickey Hess, will blurb any book – that’s right, ANY book – within 24 hours! Just look at these satisfied customers:

Terese Svoboda’s Pirate Talk or Mermalade: “Books and stories – and perhaps readers – are mundane. I do not own books (I have a striking flat television), but Terese Svoboda’s book renders me sadder and a bit wiser than before she began to write it. And that fact is subtle and mysterious.” – Mickey Hess …more

August 19th, 2010

I Will Blurb Any Book Within 24 Hours! #2

Tired of waiting weeks or even MONTHS for back-cover endorsements from recognizable authors? I, Mickey Hess, will blurb any book – that’s right, ANY book – within 24 hours! Just look at these satisfied customers:

Mykle Hansen’s HELP! A Bear is Eating Me!: “It is one thing for young people to see rappers, but it is another thing to see a bear. Mykle Hansen has quite literally written this book.” – Mickey Hess …more

August 18th, 2010

I Will Blurb Any Book Within 24 Hours!

Tired of waiting weeks or even MONTHS for back-cover endorsements from recognizable authors? I, Mickey Hess, will blurb any book – that’s right, ANY book – within 24 hours! Just look at these satisfied customers:

Blake Butler’s Scorch Atlas: “A novel featuring all-new scenes, Scorch Atlas is literature” – Mickey Hess

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About

Mickey Hess is the author of Big Wheel at the Cracker Factory (Garrett County Press, 2008) and a new novel called The Nostalgia Echo that nobody seems to want to publish. Big Wheel was featured as “Critic’s Choice” in The Chicago Reader, described as “thoroughly humorous” by The Cleveland Plain-Dealer, and mentioned online at The New Yorker, Poets & Writers, and USA Today. Mickey's stories and essays have been published in Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans: Best of McSweeney’s Humor Category (Knopf, 2005), and such journals as The Literary Review, Hawaii Review, Fringe Fiction, Ninth Letter, Punk Planet, Fourteen Hills, Pear Noir, The Foundling Review, Opium Magazine, and Annalemma. Mickey is an Associate Professor of English at Rider University, and is also the author of three books about hip hop from Greenwood Press.

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